A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 20, 1975

For every issue of TIME, our correspondents and reporter-researchers
conduct scores of interviews. The results, carefully selected, appear
in many stories as lengthy quotations or brief flashes of information,
opinion and analysis. But at times we believe in presenting interviews
at greater length, to convey not only information but the quality and
style of a personality. This week's issue contains an unusual
assortment of such interviews. Two of them are with the President and
the Vice President. Visiting Gerald Ford in the Oval Office for a
question-and-answer session last week were TIME'S Managing Editor Henry
Grunwald, Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart,...